Going On Holiday By Mistake (ft. David Koepp)

About this episode

The episode features discussions on movie holidays and reviews of recent films, including an interview with David Koepp about his latest work.

This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer pack the sunscreen, flip-flops, and oversized hats into a tiny bag as they discuss some of the movie holidays they'd like to take. And yes, they somehow manage to do this without mentioning Roman Holiday, The Holiday, M. Hulot's Holiday, or Mr Bean's Holiday. Any film with the word 'holiday' in it, basically, the colossal eejits. They've been placed on gardening leave as a result. But before that, they also discuss the week's movie news, including 24 Jump Street (with a special cameo), and review Steven Spielberg's latest movie, Disclosure Day, plus Jorma Taccone's Over Your Dead Body, and Peter Mullan drama, The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford. Speaking of Spielberg, Disclosure Day writer David Koepp returns to the podbooth to tell Chris all about how this latest slice of sci-fi came to life. [46:26 - 1:06:00] Enjoy.

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer

Guest: David Koepp

Topics covered

• movie holidays
• film reviews
• movie news
• sci-fi
• interviews

Keywords

• holiday movies
• film reviews
• David Koepp
• Disclosure Day
• sci-fi
• Empire Podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bauer Media

Books & works: Disclosure Day, Over Your Dead Body, The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford, Roman Holiday, The Holiday, M. Hulot's Holiday, Mr Bean's Holiday

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